{"id":608901,"date":"2026-08-30T04:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608901\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:28:26","slug":"kerry-parents-encouraged-to-take-part-in-hses-rsv-infant-immunisation-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608901\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry parents encouraged to take part in HSE&#8217;s RSV Infant Immunisation Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HSE South West is encouraging parents across Kerry to take part in their RSV Infant Immunisation Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common winter virus that can cause serious illness in infants, particularly during their first season.<\/p>\n<p>Free immunisation will be offered through maternity hospitals and GP practices.<\/p>\n<p>Babies born between 1 September 2026 and 28 February 2027 will be offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hse.ie\/conditions\/rsv\/immunisation\/?gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23006793099&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrNyK85fGlgMVdJVQBh3YryhgEAAYASAAEgJKu_D_BwE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RSV immunisation<\/a> in maternity hospitals before discharge where possible.<\/p>\n<p>The HSE is building on last year\u2019s successful programme, which was found to have significantly reduced RSV-related presentations to the emergency department.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HSE South West is encouraging parents across Kerry to take part in their RSV Infant Immunisation Programme. Respiratory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,257893],"class_list":["post-608901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rsv-infant-immunisation-programme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}